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One Week in the Life of a Police State
Keeping up with the real news can be difficult today—especially since those who provide us with the “news” often deliver entertainment packaged as news. In this way, what passes …
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News in Brief: War on Drugs Has Failed, and More
War on Drugs Has Failed
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California Childcare Cuts Extend Family Homelessness
MENLO PARK, Calif.—Leni Haunga, an immigrant from Tonga, said that without the childcare services she had received at a homeless shelter, her family would not have gotten back on …
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Seeing Through Transparency: On WikiLeaks
The news took a turn for the worse in 2005 when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer began broadcasting from The Situation Room, a simulation of the legendary presidential techno-bunker. Most recently, …
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US Insurance Firm Neglects Survivors of Iraqi Translators, May Face Criminal Charges
Under a federally funded program, Chicago-based CNA Financial Corp. provides insurance coverage to contractors killed or injured while working overseas for the United States. The slain translators were helping …
US Uses Peace Talks to Divide Taliban From Pakistan
The leaked reports over the past two weeks of a series of meetings between US officials and a Taliban figure close to leader Mullah Omar seemed to point to …
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Nonviolence Is the Essence of Democracy
The prophetic proclamation of the death of God by Friedrich Nietzsche's ‘madman with a lantern’ continues to stir the imaginations of Western society over a century and a half …
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No Need to “Demagogue” the Ryan Plan
Washington - It always gets back to health care. That's why 2009 and 2010 were so consumed by President Obama's push for health care reform, and why …
WikiLeaks: Saudi-Financed Madrassas More Widespread in Pakistan Than Thought
It’s hardly a secret that rich Saudi Arabians, including those running the government, have used their considerable oil wealth to spread political and ideological influence throughout the world. One …
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How Do We Know Pakistan Terror Witness Is Telling the Truth?
Is David Coleman Headley telling the truth? That question will continue to hover over a packed courtroom in Chicago this week as the 50-year-old Pakistani-American …